I have to give thumbs up if they roll region specific. Its no different then on 11. Ya sure you get the one linkshell out of 500 that has mixed NA/JP players, or that rare party you invite a jp and they say yes, or your seeking and they ask YOU only because there is absolutely nothing else to grab for their party.

In the end if there were region locked, we could play at more hours anytime because the server would have say 2000 NA online at 2am on the same server, opening up party invites etc instead of having 1000 NA here, then 1000 NA on a different server, and 1000 jp on one and 1000 on the other to equal the 2000 players online............

We have "moments" with other regions, we do not play with them, there is a difference.

BTW there is a very old video on youtube in FFXI where a JP GM was accusing an NA player for being racist for having NA ONLY in his party comment, yet the JP player reporting it had JP only in theirs.............. talk about crap. (Actually it was something similar but not exactly that above). At any rate, its to distinguish LANGUAGE type, not actual race. If a russian grows up in tokyo, what comment do you think youll see in his party search ?? I guarantee JP only. Language , not race. And if you find that video I'm talking about , that GM can go to ****. That was really messed up. I think he got jailed too, it was along time ago since I saw it lol.